Evan Osnos Quotes

I spent years overseas. I spent 11 years abroad.

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• Women and girls are disproportionately affected by landmines. They have different needs when it comes to education about risks. And they may face greater challenges when a family member is killed or injured.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Different
  • Women
  • Family

• Were the ironies of taxation any better: raising money for schools and hospitals and roads and bridges, and spending it on blowing up schools and hospitals and roads and bridges in self-defeating wars?

  

  Edward St Aubyn
  • Up
  • Money

• There is growing awareness of the beauty of country ... a sincere desire to keep some of it for all time. People are beginning to value highly the fact that a river runs unimpeded for a distance... They are beginning to obtain deep satisfaction from the fact that a herd of elk may be observed in back country, on ancestral ranges, where the Indians once hunted them. They are beginning to seek the healing relaxation that is possible in wild country. In short, they want it.

  

  Olaus Murie
  • People
  • Country
  • Running

• My solo shows require a sit-down, indoor space.

  

  Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
  • Shows
  • Require
  • Sit Down

• It takes time and a lot of looking around, but you eventually find that your home is a lot more than just the house you live in. Brás had all the time in the world to figure that out. He discovered your country can be your home, or a city, or just that particular neighborhood. Sometimes your life changes--you change--and your home moves to a different place. Brás realized that home is not a physical place at all, but a group of elements like the people you live with--a feeling, a state of mind. He feels safer just knowing that even if he's away... there is a home... waiting for him to return. It's where he can rest. Where he finds peace.

  

  Fábio Moon
  • Mind
  • Home
  • Feeling

• We have to make the bureaucracy accountable to the people. It is not something esoteric, it can be done.

  

  Arvind Kejriwal
  • People
  • Bureaucracy
  • Accountable

• I go to screenings, then plays, then after-parties, then clubs.

  

  Michael Musto
  • Party
  • Clubs
  • Screening

• Intuitive guidance means having the self-esteem to recognize that the discomfort or confusion that a person feels is actually directing him to take charge of his life and make choices that will break him out of stagnation or misery. And, while we measure our own success in terms of our personal comfort and security, the universe measures our success by how much we have learned.

  

  Caroline Myss
  • Mean
  • Choices
  • Confusion

• New York City has an integration problem.

  

  Laura Moser
  • City
  • Problem
  • New York

• Having grown up in the Middle East, eating beans for breakfast always seemed like a bizarre British eccentricity.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Up
  • Always
  • Breakfast

• It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom
  • Speak

• The ability to negotiate with other people without friction and argument is the outstanding quality of all successful people.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • People
  • Quality
  • Argument

• Looking at the shape of the world, I see how we're in a time where women are the subject of hatred, fear, and we have to fight that all the time. I feel that there are fights we take for granted. When I look at the world, I see that women are subject to cruelty. And that's why the global gag rule means so much to me, that the United States wouldn't stand up for the rights and health of women.

  

  Louise Erdrich
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• The committee has an obligation to give you a choice. The members have the obligation and the right to make that choice.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Giving
  • Choices
  • Obligation

• India is less manly under the British rule than she ever was before.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • India
  • British Rule

• Once I got into punk rock, I started mail-ordering albums, because a lot of the record stores in my area didn't carry the punk bands from England or Sweden or Chicago or Los Angeles.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Record
  • England
  • Loving

• What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Lost
  • Had
  • Spent

• If you are money, then, when you die, you will be spent.

  

  Rich Cohen
  • Money
  • Spent

• From now on there is no longer any development immanent to art. The times have passed for history of art with a logical sense. There is no longer even any consistency in absurdities; the development has been wound up, and what comes now already exists: the syncretism of a muddle of all styles and possibilities, post-history.

  

  Arnold Gehlen
  • Art
  • Development
  • Consistency

• All I know for sure is that issues like race, like class, are always best approached with compassion and open-mindedness.

  

  Ezra Koenig
  • Compassion
  • Race
  • Class

• I lead a very boring, normal life.

  

  Stockard Channing
  • Life
  • Lead
  • Boring

• I spent years overseas. I spent 11 years abroad.

  

  Evan Osnos
  • Spent
  • Abroad
  • Overseas